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Another petitioner, 81-year-old grandfather, Chief Lucky Amakiri, alleged that his grandson, Blessing Amakiri, was shot dead by the men of Ekeki Police Division on mere suspicion of belonging to a cult group. Chief Amakiri said his grandson, 19, was killed while on errand at the former Oyoyo Market in Ovom area of Yenagoa. The families of two police officers killed on June 14, 2020 in Ughelli, Delta State allegedly by men of the disbanded Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad while on special duty...

Police shot my 17-year-old son from behind – FRSC official Daniels Igoni Yenagoa Mr Daniel Kokorifa, an official of the Federal Road Safety Corps, has said his 17-year-old son, Innocent, was murdered in August 2016 by men of the Anti-Vice Unit of the Bayelsa State Police Command. Kokorifa, attached to the Port Harcourt, Rivers State Command of the FRSC, told the Bayelsa State Judicial Panel of Inquiry investigating police brutality and extrajudicial killing that the murder of his son termina...

How Police Killed My Sons Dream Of Becoming A Lawyer - FRSC Official He said the incident happened in August 2016 along Airforce Road, Okaka-Epie area in the Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state. by SaharaReporters, New York Dec 22, 2020 Mr. Daniel Kokorifa, an official of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) attached to the Port Harcourt, Rivers State Command, has recounted the tragic killing of his 17-year-old son, Innocent Kokorifa, by men of the Anti-Vice Unit of the Bayelsa Police Co...

Punch Newspapers Sections Sunday Aborisade, Abuja The Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission COVID-19 Palliatives Distribution Committee, Chief Sobomabo Jackrich, has alleged that some underprivileged people in the Niger Delta region rejected the rotten food items distributed to them by the sacked Interim Management Committee of the NDDC because they could be poisonous. He also alleged that the sacked IMC team, led by Prof Kemebradikumo Pondei, stage-managed the distribution of the ...

NSCDC arrests eight oil thieves, impounds five trucks in Rivers On By Davies Iheamnachor, Port-Harcourt Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has nabbed eight suspects alleged to be involved in oil theft and illegal refining of petroleum products in different parts of the State. The civil defense corps also impounded five trucks used in conveying the stolen and illegally refined products. The Commandant, NSCDC, Rivers State Command, Muktar Lawal, while parading the...

The Commissioner of Police, Rivers State Command, Joseph Mukan, says the Police Inspector who shot dead a Keke rider at the SARS Road area of Rukpokwu in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area at dawn, yesterday, has been arrested, and faces dismissal and prosecution. Mukan, in a statement signed by the Rivers State Command’s Spokesman, SP Nnamdi Omoni, said the command “was greeted this morning with the sad and unfortunate incident at Rukpokwu Junction, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Port H...

The Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike has signed into law the 2021 Appropriation Bill and promised that it will be implemented in providing basic infrastructure for the good of the state. Signing the 2021 Budget at the Banquet Hall of Government House, Port Harcourt, yesterday, Wike said his administration is working assiduously to sustain the tempo of development that has continued to stand the state out in the federation. He assured those who have wondered why the on-going projects in ...